Faucet



UNITED NsTATEs PATENT roEEioE.

CHAS. VW. STEARNS, 0F SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

FAUCET.

` f i speeication of Letters :Patent No. 8,237, dated July 22, i851.

To all whom t may concern Be it known thatI, CHARLES W. STEARNS, of Springfield, in the county of I-Iampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Method of Constructing Faucets;jand I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, Figure I being aplongi-V periphery ofits base in contact with the interior surface of the tubular projection D D, but leaving a hollowspace between the lower part of the conical packing and the valve-stem. The rotating cap `C C sur roiindsthe tubular projection D D, and there is a male screwfor thread on the outer surface of the tubular projection and acorresponding female screw on the interior sui'-,

face of the cap.

The operation of this arrangement is, that rotating the cap, causes it to rise and fall,

and with it the valve also which is attached to it. And therefore rotating the caphas` the effect to open and close "the faucet. e The use of thefhollow conical packing around the valve-stem is to prevent the inconvenience of any portion of the liquid from escaping through the tubular projection, while the packing plays freely in the tubular projection and without friction, from being made hollow. 'Ihe male thread screw, (as

seen atE E in Fig. 2,) commencing at the top of thel tubular projection is only carried a part of the way down, so that the ree maining portion of the surface is left smooth and cylindrical, at the same time, the female `thread or Ascrew on the inner surface of the cap is continued throughoutfrom top to bottom. i But at or near the lower edge of the cap a small pin or screw p is inserted, which crosses the threads of the screw, so that when the cap` is screwed up or raised to a certain height, this pin strikes against the end of the male thread on the tubular proi jection, and thus prevents the cap from being turned so far as to come entirely off.

The chief advantages claimed for` the yabove described method of constructing faucets is the absence of friction, thereby rendering them durable and also causing them to openand shut easily.4 j j What I claim therefore as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isj The application of a hollow conical packing around the waist of the valve stem in combination with an `open space between its lower end and the stem, the interior of the tubular projection being smooth or of such forni as to allow a` tight joint between it and the conical packing substantially as above described.

CHAELEs w. sTEARNs.

lVitnesses:

JOHN D. GoULD, `INM. HY. STEARNS. 

